An experimental search engine built by a team of former Google search experts!

“Cuill Inc. (pronounced “cool”) is a startup company that is pioneering a new approach to Search. The company was founded by Tom, Anna and Russell.” – Cuil…

already wrote about Cuill, and most of my then thoughts look to be true.

Interesting is that people are only writing about it now, when Techcrunch released an article, altought it has been mentioned 7 (!) months before in Venturebeat.

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It is, in fact, NOT about better search results at all. It is about traffic, which is about brand, which is about distribution agreements that expand the brand.

Look at MSFT, good was always good enough. Still is. It is a shitty op system and until 5 years ago you couldn’t even find a miss-filed doc. Not until GOOG did it for you.

It will take far more than better search results to unseat google.

First, Michael’s comparison of powerset and cuill in terms of efficiency is probably comparing apples and oranges. My best guess is that cuill does not focus on being more efficient in creating and maintaining an index (i.e., crawling and index build), but that their index itself is structured in a way that supports more efficient query processing afterwards. So this is not about how much resources are used to generated a good index (which is not really the main system bottleneck in a large search engine), and so the remark about the deep sentence analysis done by powerset may not be relevant. (In fact, cuill might also use extra resources to analyze the data in order to build such a better index.)

Secondly, yes, it is difficult to compete with google in terms of brand name. But the company might be highly valuable to a competitor (Yahoo, MSFT, Ask) for infrastructure reasons, which may make it worthwhile for google to buy it first.

As for the twiceler issues, this is fairly normal at the launch – crawling is quite tricky and I suspect their emphasis is not really on crawling though they need data to prove the concept.

A search engine that destroys the sites the are indexing…. really a new invention. Happy to hear, the will be aquired by google. there they can learn something!

I don’t think Google has anything to worry about. One of the other reasons they became the main search option was the word free. Everything is free with Google, whereas Excite, Yahoo, etc. all wanted to start charging.

It’ll be interesting when and if people start installing adblock plus in mass. I still don’t understand why Microsoft doesn’t ship an ad blocker by default.